Securing and improving speed

durkmusic

durkmusic

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I am trying to improve the overall speed of everyday applications and usage. My current security only involves CA Internet Security Suite 2010. It is a firewall, anti-virus, etc. I am in the process of switching to avira and some malware protection that I forget the name but someone suggested it. I need this computer to be very secure because I do a lot of transactions involving credit cards and other important information that needs to be kept confidential. I also want my computer to be fast. It doesn't seem to be fast as far as starting up and opening applications. I think my problem is the HDD. I have also had some problems with applications freezing up (firefox and FL Studio).

Also, not sure what I should use for my new firewall... windows firewall?

Thanks.
 
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As far as securing goes, get a good AV and keep the virus defs up to date. Get a firewall of some kind (i prefer hardware ones but if you are not of the kind to be able to set it up it might not be the right choice for you) Other than that keeping your CC info safe while you purchase things is ultimately up to you. Make sure you only put your CC# in on secure sites, because that is what is going to encrypt your information. Have good strong passwords on your accounts, and stay away from "funny business" (ie opening weird emails or going to fishy sites) You do those things and you will stay just about as safe as you can get. O and also run a mal/spy/ad ware scanner once in a while... i prefer malware bytes it is a pretty solid program.

As far as speed if you think your HDD is the issue you could try running a defrag on it, the windows one is OK or you can use defraggler which is pretty nice. Maybe even run CCleaner on there to clean up some old temp files and clean up the registry too.

See if this helps at all and post back.
 
i love microsoft security essentials, also a great firewall is Filseclab Personal Firewall, also use MRU blaster and ccleaner once a week with spybot and malwarebytes live scan, you should be good to go
 
Avira, Spybot, MSE, I have all of these installed... is this bad? Is this good? I want it to be secure and not slow my system down.

Thanks.
 
You should only have one installed because they screw each other up. Personally i've never had problems with AVG (using Internet Security 9.0) and malwarebytes so long as you don't use them at the same time.
 
i would remove avira as it seems to be another anti virus... i think mse will do you just fine and is very light... you can keep spybot on there if you like that... i prefer malwarebytes but spybot will get the job done for most things. i used to use spybot as my #1 spyware remover until i was finding it wasnt getting the job done on peskier infections... i found that malwarebytes performed where spybot didnt.
 
I removed avira because it was trying to remove things I needed. So, I guess I have everything else right now. Is that still too much? I am using windows firewall for that and I'm not sure what the rest of that stuff really is...
 
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